Cell set up at CM House to address complaints about census

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has set up a ‘Census Complaint Cell’ at CM House after receiving reports that high-rise buildings, comprising a number of apartments, are being counted as a single house. “If it is true, it is against the assurances given to us by the Census Commission and Federal Minister Ishaq Dar that he would ensure transparency in the census process,” he said.

The chief minister, who was talking to the media after attending a meeting with the business community at a local hotel on Thursday, said there would be no compromise on transparency and accuracy of the census.

The chief minister recalled that he had written a letter to the federal minister and requested him to take necessary measures to make the census credible. In response to the letter “Mr Dar has assured me that he would ensure transparency.”

A high-rise counted as one house is not acceptable, says Murad
Besides, he said, the provincial census commissioner had also told him that apartments or multiple residential accommodations would be counted separately and now they should not to be marked as one house. “Let us see what they are doing and we would get it verified,” the chief minister said and added that there would be no compromise on its transparency and accuracy.

According to an official statement the Census Complaint Cell at CM House is linked with two landline phones and two fax numbers receiving public complaints daily from 8am to 10pm on 021-99207350, 99202180; Fax 021-99202007, 99202000. The chief minister has posted Deputy Secretary M. Aslam Soomro to supervise the working of the complaint cell.

Source: Dawn